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Opening doors for the next SSP cohort

You know what SSP can launch: confidence in the lab, a real scientific community, and a career direction that sticks.

For more than 100 years, The Jackson Laboratory has been immersing students in genetic research and
fostering scientific discovery through the Summer Student Program.

If you’re an SSP alum, you’re proof of what this experience can do. Support the SSP today. 

Fuel breakthroughs at The Jackson Laboratory.

Support the stipend

Your $250 gift covers just over a third of a student's weekly stipend, fueling their hands-on lab experience and crucial research progress.
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Supply the tools for discovery

Your $50 provides lab essentials — such as notebooks, reagents and daily research supplies — that keep student projects moving forward.
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Rise to the challenge

Your gift of $500 helps meet the $180,000 challenge for the SSP endowment and strengthens the long term support that will keep a full cohort of Summer Students at JAX in future years.
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